Here are the famous speeches from Juliet—"Come, night! Come, Romeo!"—and from Portia—"The quality of mercy. .."—but also less familiar ones from Viola, Hermia, Isabella and Cressida. These younger ...

A new edition of the "tour-de force" (Time Out) based on the life of Quentin Crisp. "The great majority of this absorbing monologue consists of Crisp’s own words. ..wisely Fountain doesn’t attempt ...

Andromache takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Andromache has become a concubine to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus, bearing him a child, Molossus. The captive Andromache is haunted by memories ...

In bedbound, a father and daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrifying ...

A moving and perceptive play that looks at social change across three decades, from the student barricades of the late 1960s to the new millennium. A box-office sensation on its premiere in Australia. ...

When her son, Oswald, comes back from Paris, Mrs Alving feels the ghosts of her past life returning to haunt them.

Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts was first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, in a production ...

An urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's Eastern borders.

Beginning in early 1989 and spanning some twelve years, the play follows a team of peace negotiators attempting to resolve ...

A poignant two-hander about memory, truth and love, from Flemish writer Arne Sierens.

When Paola invites Raymond into her life, as drum teacher to her son, the past gets messily unravelled. Unknown to ...

Like so many of the great Irish authors, McPherson's writing has a beautiful, lyrical quality and the characters he creates are not easily forgotten. Once again, he explores the heart and psyche of the ...

Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle ...